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Light it up
Pfcs. Greg Zecher and Nicholas Roberts, machine gunners with Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, illuminate the night sky by firing tracer rounds and then reloading their weapons during Exercise Clear, Hold, Build 3 on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Sept. 21, 2011. (Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Reece Lodder / RELEASED)
The two-day evolution — part of the Enhanced Mojave Viper training exercise — enabled “America’s Battalion” to improve its capabilities as the ground combat element of a Marine Air-Ground Task Force. The exercise is their final pre-deployment training event before deploying to Afghanistan’s Helmand province next month to support Operation Enduring Freedom. Zecher, 19, is from Jacksonville, Fla. Roberts, 20, is from Erie, Pa.
In: Images, Military · Tagged with: US Marine Corps
Komm rüber!
Defecting East German soldier Hans Conrad Schumann leaps over a barbed wire barricade at the Bernauer Street sector into West Berlin on Aug. 15, 1961 (Photo by Peter Leibing)
Schumann was guarding the “Berlin Wall” (at the time it was only a barbed-wire barricade) during it’s construction at the corner of Ruppiner Straße (street) and Bernauer Straße. As West Berliners shouted “Komm rüber!” (come over), the soldier lept the barbed wire where he ran to a waiting West German police car that took him to safety.
In: Images, Military History · Tagged with: Cold War
“Heavenly Herd” River Crossing
Paratroopers of the U.S. 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade hold their automatic weapons above water as they cross a river in the rain during a search for Viet Cong positions in the jungle area of Ben Cat, South Vietnam, Sept. 25, 1965. ( AP / Henri Huet)
In: Images, Military History · Tagged with: 173rd Airborne Brigade, Vietnam War
Crawling through the rice paddy
Private First Class Lacey Skinner of Birmingham, Ala., crawls through the mud of a rice paddy in January of 1966, avoiding heavy Viet Cong fire near An Thi in South Vietnam, as troops of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division fight a fierce 24-hour battle along the central coast. (AP Photo/Henri Huet)
In: Images, Military History · Tagged with: Vietnam War
Boneyard Stratojet
Boeing JQB-47E-45-BW Stratojet at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in September of 1968 (Photo use with permission of Neil Aird)
Check out more of Neil’s great photos of the “Boneyard” over 40 years ago.
In: Images, Military History · Tagged with: B-47 Stratojet, US Air Force
This pilot’s carbon footprint is larger than yours
Boeing B-47B rocket-assisted take off on April 15, 1954. (U.S. Air Force photo)
In: Images, Military History · Tagged with: B-47 Stratojet
Labor Day at sea
During the evening news on Labor Day, there is the obligatory segment where the local reporter talks to Americans who have the misfortune of working on Labor Day. One job that is rarely mentioned is the men and women of the Armed Forces. Over the last ten years, there hasn’t been as many summer vacations they can enjoy with the kids. Certainly not very many three-day weekends to enjoy with friends. Jihadists don’t typically take Labor Day off, so our troops can’t either.
Happy belated Labor Day to all the Marines, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and guardsmen out there.
Daylight dwindles off Southern California's coast Labor Day as the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island and the embarked 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit continued operations here. (Photo by GySgt Scott Dunn)
In: Images, Military · Tagged with: USS Makin Island
Improvise, Adapt, Overcome
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - Sgt. Jason Pacheco, 23, scout sniper instructor, Division Schools, 1st Marine Division, from Las Vegas, N.M., uses his prosthetic leg as support for an M40 Sniper Rifle on a firing range at Camp Pendleton Aug. 30, 2011. Pacheco suffered a severed leg after an improvised explosive device detonated beneath him during a patrol in Afghanistan August 2010. His leg had to be amputated below his knee. Pacheco uses his prosthetic leg to support the weight of his rifle to show an example of how students can use anything to steady a rifle. He has been an instructor for the Pre-Scout Sniper School since March and recently completed a physical fitness test with his prosthetic leg. He has re-enlisted and said he hopes to continue training in preparation to return to full duty. (Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Timothy Lenzo)
In: Images, Military · Tagged with: US Marine Corps
Battle of Eniwetok
Eniwetok landing. US soldiers on the beach awaiting orders to attack (Source: National Park Service)
On Feb. 17, 1944, the naval and aerial bombardment of Eniwetok Atoll began. Intelligence suggested that enemy defenses would be light, so the Navy did not use as much ordinance as they had at previous operations. Therefore, when two regiments of U.S. soldiers and Marines landed on Feb. 18, it took them 4 days to secure Eniwetok Island rather than the 24 hours they had anticipated. Nearly all of the Japanese and Korean defenders were killed.
Check out the Center for American Military History’s article on the Battle of Eniwetok.
In: Images, Military History · Tagged with: World War II
Operation Flintlock
Marines on Roi-Namur. Source: Flickr
On January 31 and February1, 1944, Marines and soldiers stormed the Japanese-held beaches of Kwajelein and Roi-Namur in the Marshall Islands. In a few short days, the force would overwhelm the defenders and gain control of the Marshall Islands.
In: Images, Military History · Tagged with: US Marine Corps, World War II
